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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does the Marlboro Man mispronounce while the Minister walks down the tarmac?
(a) Adios.
(b) Bon Voyage.
(c) Ciao.
(d) Aloha.

2. What does the Minister say to the Marlboro Man when he tries to say the two are similar?
(a) He agrees with him.
(b) He tells him he is insane.
(c) The Minister says that he should have been arrested with the man.
(d) The Minister says that the Man is far more noble than he is.

3. What weapon does the man who said he was Red Cross use to frighten Ari?
(a) A bomb.
(b) A club.
(c) A knife.
(d) A gun.

4. What does the man tell the Minister is disappointing after the Minister says he knows the man will kill them?
(a) That the Minister is running away.
(b) That the Minister does not recognize the man.
(c) That the Minister was not prepared for the storm.
(d) That the Minister relies on Ari to help him.

5. What does the man tell the Minister is different about both of them from their younger days?
(a) Their bellies are bigger.
(b) They are far more educated.
(c) They have much more money.
(d) Their hair is shorter.

6. How does the Minister know the man in the car is not from the Red Cross?
(a) He does not have a Red Cross I.D.
(b) The man told him he is not from the Red Cross.
(c) The Red Cross no longer exists.
(d) His uniform is not a Red Cross uniform.

7. What does the Marlboro Man tell the Minister he is a student of?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) History.
(c) Agriculture.
(d) Human nature.

8. What does the Minister tell the Marlboro Man will happen to him once they reach the airport?
(a) He will be taken to Paris.
(b) Ari will bring him back to the church.
(c) He will be arrested.
(d) He will be executed.

9. What begins to happen just as the Minister reaches his plane at the end of the story?
(a) The plane begin to take off before the Minister gets on it.
(b) It starts to snow.
(c) The airport floods.
(d) It starts to rain.

10. Where is the "decades-old failed public-works project" (7) that Ari drives past with the Minister and the man in the car?
(a) Downtown.
(b) The forest.
(c) The old mill.
(d) The reservoir.

11. Where does the man who got into the car with the Minister tell him he wants to go?
(a) To church.
(b) To a hotel.
(c) To the airport.
(d) To a cafe.

12. What types of tales did Elena tell the Minister's children when they were young?
(a) Tales of the apocalypse.
(b) Tales of elves and fairies.
(c) Tales of Jesus as a young man.
(d) Tales of the Devil as a young man.

13. What is the only thing the Prime Minister reads in the present?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Facebook posts.
(c) Emails.
(d) Bank statements.

14. What does the Minister recall he and the Prime Minister doing "to young thugs who could not even spell their own names" (10)?
(a) Beating them up.
(b) Finding them jobs.
(c) Giving them guns.
(d) Tutoring them.

15. What does the man tell Ari he gave up long ago?
(a) Killing.
(b) Driving.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long ago does the Marlboro Man say he was given that nickname?

2. What does the Minister do when the Marlboro Man says, "You, too, are by brother" (12)?

3. What does the Minister say to the man after he has pulled him into the car with Ari?

4. Who does the man say gave him the nickname The Marlboro Man?

5. What author does the Minister recall he and the Prime Minister reading in their youth?

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